Potty Training?

We were in Graz, Austria for another Bible school weekend. This time the subject was healing and deliverance; very good teaching. I was with Clay most of the time so will have to catch the parts I missed when we get the MP3's.

On Friday evening Clay assumed the position and started to grunt. I didn't know if I'd have enough diapers and I had just changed him so I told him to wait and rushed him to the bathroom. I got him undressed, stood behind him and straddled the toilet so he wouldn't feel insecure about the large hole beneath him. He went in the potty (saving me a diaper!) and was very happy to wash his hands with soap and make bubbles. When we got home Sunday night I reminded him that he had gone poopy in the potty and told him that he could have some stickers to put on his chart. I had gotten a free toilet training kit from Charmin a long time ago. He liked putting the stickers on.

Yesterday morning he once again assumed the position and grunted. I asked him this time if he wanted to go in the potty and he said, with a very red face, "Hu-uh." I told him I'd like him to try and I stood behind him again. He did it and got more stickers for his chart. This time it dawned on him why he was getting the stickers.

Last night, once again... This time I asked him if he had to go poopy. "Poopy." "Do you want to go in the potty?" "I go potty." This time I didn't have his special seat so he watched things fall in amazement and laughed at it all. Afterwards he got a cookie and marched upstairs as if was hot stuff. He held his cookie proudly with one hand and pretended to be nonchalant while he put the stickers on with the other hand. Stickers are his thing!

I decided not to push him yet. I think he's still a little young to be potty training, but if he's willing we're going to do what we can.

My cousins, Danny and Emily, come tomorrow with a couple other young people from their church. They've been in Moldova on a missions trip and decided it made sense to visit here for a few days. I'm excited.